Transcriber’s Note
There was no opening half-title in the source used to prepare this text.
The two column table of contents for each chapter is retained. Since the contents of Chapters II & V were split by a page break, the left column of the second page followed the right column of the preceding page. These have been reorganized as they would have been had they fit on a single page.
Only the validity of index references to footnotes have been checked. A number of them, listed below, were incorrect.
Index Notes
[1]: [Arte Nuevo de Hacer Comedias] refers to a note on p. 50, but there is no mention there.
[2]: [Camoens] refers to a note on p. 553, but there is no mention.
[3]: [Cotin] should refer to the text on p. [287] not to a note.
[4]: [Courthope] refers incorrectly to a note on p. 444. It should be p. [449]
[5]: [Crescimbeni] references a non-existent note on p. 218.